50 state quarters ranked (may be controversial)

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Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?

 Yes, 50 obverses shown [I counted them] but all look the same. 

Should it be reverses instead? 

What is S A B C D letters on left? 

Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins

The letters on the side are the rankings, S being the highest rank, D being the lowest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a joke. The point is that it’s only the obverse designs, so people don’t know which one is which

Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?

I mean, I disagree with your ranking entirely! How could you place West Virginia there? Florida there, really dude? And don't get me started on your ranking of the Dakotas. 🤬

And didn't they introduce some additional ones for the not-actual-states states, like Guam?

Don't get why you'd exclude them? Guess you just don't consider them important enough eh? Favouritism at its finest.

 

I wouldn't even use a printed out copy of that grading system as toilet paper. That's just how rubbish I think it is.

 

(Just teasing, you understand 🙂)

 

ZacUK - the SABCD is a weird way of grading, I believe it's Japanese in origin but has wormed it's way into some level of recognition internationally. Not sure exactly what “S” stands for, but I've heard it referred to as “God-tier”, as well as “Special” or “Super”. Think of it like A*

Should be 55 coins, you forgot the 5 territorial coins from 2009 - Northern Marianas, DC, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Puerto Rico.

 

The ranking thing is very popular on Youtube. I have seen videos ranking everything this way from Musicians, Albums, Songs, Movies, Diseases for their deadliness, forms of discrimination, and even species of various animals (Frogs, Bears, Cats etc). Currently I am watching a video ranking Superbowl Half time shows.

 

This list excludes F tier, but I have seen up to 9 tiers and people even able to make up their own grades.

 

S = Superb or exceptional, being that basic A grade is not good enough, like an S tier thing is the Creme de la Creme.

A = Excellent, Great but not Exceptional or classic

B = Above Average, Good, Very Good etc

C= Average, Decent, Satisfactory

D = Poor, Unremarkable, Meh! Mediocre

F = Bad, Terrible, Awful

 

Coin example S Tier = Gothic Crown of 1847 in Uncirculated Condition

A = Most Halfcrowns, Morgan Dollars and Walkers in High Grade. Gold sovereigns

B = State Quarters, Most British classic silver coins

C = Most modern coins

D = Euro coins, old European coins, Inflation, Hispanic Coins

F tier = Niuean coin showing a chicken wing or Cameroonian coin showing apple, Australian $1 or $2 with some dumb sports event or obscure kids character ending in “iggle”.

I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society

The 6 quarters that were released in 2009 were under the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Program which were done under different Congressional Legislation than the preceding 50 State Quarters Program so the 50 coins shown are correct.

What was the 6th quarter?

I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society

Guam

Thank you! This was really helpful information. 👍

I know most countries of the world but all those Northwest Pacific places like Guam, Palua, Micronesia confuse the heck out of me. So many islands and Nesias. I know all the Polynesian islands (Its beat into us in our indoctrinated schools) and the Melanesian islands, but for us any further north of Kiribati and Nauru and its confusion - plus America owns most of them.

 

For a person of partial Pacific ethnicity (NZ's Maori are considered a Polynesian people and we call the Pacific “Te Moananui a Kiwa”), this is scandalous.

 

I still think I made a dafter thread. One time years ago, someone complained about how some threads were getting silly (I won't say who as I will probably be wrong and they will get all precious about it), and mentioned “Most fluffiest coin” - so i did a thread, where I took some ramdom cheap coin I had bought (I was definitely buying cheaper and more common coins back then) and placed it on some pink fluffy material and said it was the “fluffiest coin”. The thread had zero replies. It was funny though.

I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society

Moneytane

I know most countries of the world but all those Northwest Pacific places like Guam, Palua, Micronesia confuse the heck out of me.

Palau*, but I'm sure this was just a typo. 

 

I have got rid of all my state quarters. The only ones I've kept are the territorial ones from Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and US Virgin Islands.

Moneytane

“Most fluffiest coin” - so i did a thread, where I took some ramdom cheap coin I had bought (I was definitely buying cheaper and more common coins back then) and placed it on some pink fluffy material and said it was the “fluffiest coin”. The thread had zero replies. It was funny though.

I remember. Had 1 reply.

I just found that out too, I was about to hot link it, but you have for me.

 

Palua was a spelling mistake, my mouse died on me (Batteries last 3 - 6 weeks when they should last years - Energizers too, not 20 cent Hwa Fong batteries from some slave labour prison in China).

 

I spelled Random wrong too - I blame declining intellect through age and still poor keyboard skills, fat fingers (Keyboards designed for Kate Moss sized fingers). But I blame myself at least.

I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society

Moneytane

I blame […] fat fingers (Keyboards designed for Kate Moss sized fingers). But I blame myself at least.

Oh, I know this far too well! I spend about 1-2 minutes to write a comment, then I spend about 10 minutes to edit it because of FFS (Fat Fingers Syndrome), lol!

 

In 97% of the cases I press ‘n’ instead of ‘space’, ‘v’ instead of ‘b’, ‘p’ instead of ‘o’., and ‘k’ instead of ‘i’ and ‘l’, and ‘j’ instead if ‘h’.

 

It's really frustrating, and I really miss the keypads on the mobile phones. Back then I could type blindfolded behind my back, but now … it's just a pain to write messages longer than five words. And I can't even blame old age – yet! 😅

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